Cooperative Control

• All network operations supported without a controller
• Lower cost, higher performance
• Radio Resource Management for automatic channel selection and power control
• Auto-discovery and configuration of Aerohive Access Points
• Fast and secure L2 and L3 roaming
• Foundation for resilient and highly available WLAN services

Full capabilities on every Access Point

HiveOS includes enterprise-class features, delivered without licensing cost and hassle, on every access point:

• Secure fast roaming (L2 and L3)
• Radio resource management
• Band steering and load balancing for high-density network deployments
• Stateful firewall with application layer gateways (ALGs)
• Web server for guest access – Captive Web Portal
• Flexible interaction with user databases: RADIUS server, RADIUS Caching, native directory integration, and SIP2 databases for libraries
• Full QoS
• Spectrum Analysis
• WIPS
• Rogue detection and mitigation

Client Health Score

• At-a-glance display of the quality of client connections
• Includes easy-to-understand icons that enable a quick view of radio, IP network, and application status

Service Level Assurance

• Performance Sentinel built into every AP enables real-time tracking of performance per user, or per application
• System can be enabled to automatically take action to boost performance of mission-critical applications

Dynamic Airtime Scheduling

• Improves performance in mixed networks by providing preferential access to the fastest client devices
• Gets fastest clients off the air quickly, to enable superior performance in a mixed a/b/g/n client environment

Private PSK

• Generates easy-to-deploy, one-time security keys for guest or intermittent use

Layer 3 IPSec VPN

• Remote users can connect all authenticated devices with corporate resources
• No need to install IPSec or SSL VPN software on client devices
• Complete security comes from local intelligence, cloud security services and mobile device management

Cloud Proxy

• Ensures security of branch office communications without the need for security appliances at each site
• Eliminate web proxy information on every end user device.
• Greatly reduces bandwidth costs
• Eliminates the need to route traffic back to central location for filtering

Network Flow-based Stateful Firewall

• Enforces policy at the network level
• Combines user identity and mobile device management, so access is based identity and device type.

Network Flow-based Stateful Firewall

• Enforces policy at the network level via a combination of user identity and very granular mobile device management.
• Access based on who they are and the type of device that they are using.

Network-as-a-Service Offering

• One year subscription enables flexible deployment of branch routers without CAPEX

Unified Control and Policy

• Easy and intuitive to create and deploy unified wired and wireless access policies across the entire network
• HiveOS Cooperative Control protocols ensure all devices securely share policy information across the entire network, including 802.1X security policies.

Zero-Touch Provisioning

• Zero-touch provisioning avoids the need for pre-configuration and costly truck rolls
• The switches will automatically download updated firmware and policy configuration information and immediately provide service to connected devices, without any need for administrator intervention.

Enterprise-Class Cloud-Enabled Switching

• HiveOS supports advanced switching functionality like user-based QoS, storm control, and 802.1X multiple authentication for voice and data coexistence, along with traditional switch features such as LLDP, Spanning Tree, Jumbo Frames, and IGMP snooping.

• HiveOS 5.1 Network Operating System Routing Features
• HiveOS 5.1 Network Operating System Wi-Fi Features
• HiveOS 6.0 Network Operation System Switching Features